Kate Chopin

At Fault (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

After the Civil War, Therese Lafirme, a widow, runs a plantation in rural Louisiana. When a divorced businessman named David Hosmer purchases timber rights to her land in order to support his newly built sawmill, Lafirme struggles to balance her growing affections with her hard-earned sense of independence and deep moral convictions. At Fault is the debut novel of Kate Chopin.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mint Editions
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781513276601
• Artikelnr.: 61463418

Autorenporträt

Kate Chopin (1850-1904) was an American writer. Born in St. Louis, Missouri to a family with French and Irish ancestry, Chopin was raised Roman Catholic. An avid reader, Chopin graduated from Sacred Heart Convent in 1968 before marrying Oscar Chopin, with whom she moved to New Orleans in 1870. The two had six children before Oscar's death in 1882, which left the family with extensive debts and forced Kate to take over her husband's businesses, including the management of several plantations and a general store. In the early 1890s, back in St. Louis and suffering from depression, Chopin began writing short stories, articles, and translations for local newspapers and literary magazines. Although she achieved moderate critical acclaim for her second novel, The Awakening (1899)-now considered a classic of American literature and a pioneering work of feminist fiction-fame and success eluded her in her lifetime. In the years since her death, however, Chopin has been recognized as a leading author of her generation who captured with a visionary intensity the lives of Southern women, often of diverse or indeterminate racial background.